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Tampa Bay Skates Past Columbus 3-2 - Recap

The Lightning earned a 3-2 victory over the Blue Jackets on Saturday at Scotiabank Arena.

Tampa Bay was favored by -162 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went PUSH the consensus closing total of 5.0.

Tampa Bay got goals from Brayden Point, Victor Hedman, and Alex Killorn in the victory. Killorn opened the scoring at 15:48 of the first period.

Andrei Vasilevskiy turned in a 15-save effort for the Lightning.

Columbus got goals from Riley Nash, and Eric Robinson in the loss, but it wasn't enough.

Joonas Korpisalo stopped 31 of 34 shots for the Blue Jackets, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.

On the power play, Tampa Bay went 0-for-1, while the Blue Jackets were 0-for-4 with the man advantage.

Columbus lost the shots on goal battle to Tampa Bay by a margin of 34-17.